The Heroines Want to Confess

Chapter 457 457: An Adventure at the Bottom of the Sea.

At night, the yacht had set up automatic navigation.

If everything went smoothly, after sleeping for one night they would arrive at their destination.

The girls were holding a pajama sleepover party, while Sakurai Saki went out onto the deck to enjoy the night breeze.

The starry sky over the sea was dazzling. If it were Shirogane Miyuki—the star-gazing maniac—who saw this scene, he would surely be very happy, but he had already run off to America...

Raising his phone, Sakurai Saki took a picture.

Unfortunately, there was no telescope on the ship.

"Saki-kun, what are you looking at?"

Sakurai Saki turned his head and realized it was Chika. Wearing pajamas, with a thin coat draped over her, she had run out. He smiled at her. "Looking at the stars."

"And you? Why did you come out here?"

The summer night breeze, because they were out at sea, was very cool.

But it was definitely still not as good as air conditioning.

Fujiwara Chika walked to the edge of the deck and, together with Sakurai Saki, rested her arms on the railing.

"Because I missed you, so I came out to see you."

"Is that so."

Sakurai Saki tilted his face to look at her. The night breeze swayed her cherry-pink long hair. "We rarely get to be alone together at this hour, huh? Aside from the last time I saw you home."

Chika did not speak, indeed very beautiful.

Unfortunately, once she opened her mouth, this gentle aura would vanish like clouds and smoke.

"Back in our first year, during the cultural festival, we also stayed out very late," Chika added on purpose. "And not just once."

"You really remember it clearly. But back then it was to help the class, and as a new student council member, leaving too early would make it hard to establish authority." Sakurai Saki laughed.

That was more than two years ago.

Yet she still remembered it so clearly.

It was obviously just a very ordinary time of staying late.

"I remember everything..." Chika raised her head to look at the starry sky, brilliant and dazzling. The Summer Triangle, Orihime and Hikoboshi gazing at each other from afar, seeming as though they would never be able to touch one another. "Everything related to you, I remember very clearly."

Whether it was the first time they met.

Or other things.

The games they played together, every win and loss—Chika recorded them all in her diary—though she hardly ever won.

Happy things, sad things, she remembered them all.

"Saying something so touching at this hour, I might fall in love with you." Sakurai Saki teased.

"Ara ara~"

Fujiwara Chika turned to look at him again.

Smiling mischievously, she said, "If Sakurai-kun falls in love with me, then when are you planning to confess to me?"

"So it's 'Sakurai-kun' again. That way of addressing me really makes one feel nostalgic." Sakurai Saki looked into her eyes.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, then burst out laughing at the same time.

"Forget it, mushy stuff like this doesn't suit us."

"Saki-kun, about confessing—have you thought about how to do it? You still owe me one."

"Then… shall we first stop the boat?"

Sakurai Saki quickly made up his mind.

...

The yacht slowly decelerated and came to a stop on the surface of the sea.

Sakurai Saki stood at the stern. Under Chika's astonished gaze, he jumped down, splashing up a beautiful spray of water. The stern lights illuminated a whole stretch of the sea...

"Come down."

Sakurai Saki opened his arms toward her.

"Isn't it too high?" Fujiwara Chika bent down to take a look. A distance of five or six meters—would it really be okay to jump down?

"Trust me."

"But it's really high."

"I'll catch you. I won't let you get hurt."

"Don't lie to me."

Fujiwara Chika tightly closed her eyes and jumped down.

Very quickly.

She felt two solid arms wrap around her—it was Sakurai Saki.

"What are you planning to do?"

"Take you down to the bottom of the sea to have a look."

Sakurai Saki knew that Chika liked novel and interesting things, and he still had not fulfilled his promise to take the girl on an adventure. This time, he would make it up to her.

"Eh? The bottom of the sea?"

Chika exclaimed in surprise.

Immediately after, the two of them dove beneath the surface of the sea. Several fish swimming nearby were startled and quickly scattered away.

Fujiwara Chika hid in Sakurai Saki's arms, tightly closing her eyes, not daring to open them, only vaguely sensing that the light around her was gradually disappearing.

A few minutes later.

The sensation of seawater flowing over her body also faded away...

"You can open your eyes now, this is shallow water."

Only when Sakurai Saki's voice sounded by her ear did Chika slowly open her eyes—

Bright yet gentle light illuminated everything within her view. Green algae swayed with the currents, sea anemones undulated, emitting strange colors, schools of sardines gathered and surged, sometimes curiously brushing against the two of them, then frightening themselves and darting away.

So beautiful.

This place is… the seabed stars?

Wait, she'll drown.

Chika tightly closed her mouth, held her breath, and puffed up her cheeks like an adorable hamster.

"You can breathe, don't worry." Sakurai Saki swam a circle around her, looking like a mischievous clownfish.

At present, most of the abilities within his body could already be used freely; he had long since ceased to be restricted.

Bringing someone down into the sea to dive was completely effortless.

Chika took a breath and discovered that no seawater flowed into her mouth at all...

"Sugoi."

After exclaiming.

Chika lifted her head to look up... and suddenly felt a bit scared again.

This is the seabed, right?

They didn't even bring diving equipment.

"Can't you trust me a little?" Sakurai Saki saw at a glance what she was thinking and said irritably.

Would an Esper let something happen to you?

"Eh eh, what is that? It's so strange..."

Chika was suddenly drawn by something, speaking as she was about to reach out and touch the reef.

"Don't run around." Sakurai Saki himself had never gone deep into the sea either. This world was not an ordinary world; supernatural power existed. The fact that Hokkaido stayed below minus ten degrees all year round was already proof that something was abnormal.

Gods, angels, demons, evil organizations that wanted to rule the world.

Who knew—there might even be sea monsters at the bottom of the sea.

"Is there any kind of sea fish you want to see? I can take you to see it."

Chika shook her head. "It's not easy to get down to the seabed even once—just looking at fish is boring."

"Tada~ look at this, I brought this." Chika smiled with a mysterious expression and took out an item from the small pouch on her clothes that looked like a watch...

Imitating Doraemon's tone, she said, "Treasure~ treasure detector."

Sakurai Saki: "..."

You still haven't thrown this thing away?

Well, that makes sense. She spent ten thousand yen on it and it never even got to be useful. It would be strange if Chika threw it away.

"Beep beep beep~"

The detector emitted a sound, then pointed toward a target direction.

A brilliant smile appeared on Chika's cute face as she reached out her hand toward Sakurai Saki. "Saki-kun~ let's go explore!"

Sakurai Saki laughed helplessly and took her hand.

Then let's go crazy together once.

Anyway, this detector was definitely a fake.

And if they really found a treasure, he would kneel on the spot and worship Chika as his master.

...

One hour later.

Sakurai Saki looked at the shipwreck in front of him, his face full of question marks.

It actually exists?

He had been careless.

"A shipwreck!!! That's the treasure!!" Fujiwara Chika tugged at Sakurai Saki, intending to move closer.

Finally! She knew it—this treasure detector she bought wasn't fake!

"I don't think this is right, Chika. Think about it—has there ever been a ship carrying treasure that sank in this sea area in history?"

Chika hurriedly said, "I don't know about that stuff, but there's treasure in the ship!"

She only knew that in front of them was a shipwreck.

She was about to go on a killing spree!

Sakurai Saki: "..."

She really is too obsessed with adventure. I'm going to cry myself to death.

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